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Assess Your CEO’s Strategic Fit Over Time

Harvard Business Review

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. Managers whose leadership is inconsistent with corporate purpose and values are asked to leave, though even this last act is done with caring. It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture.